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June 17th, 2009
07:11 pm - wondering about 3am
I knew to expect this, but I currently have only a few minutes a day where I get to do something that I *want* to do, just because I enjoy it, instead of either sleeping or doing something that I *have* to do (even though I enjoy many of those things, too). I'm wondering if the 1am or 3am feeding is a good time to get online and read fanfic or even (gasp) write fanfic (assuming I have the use of even one hand).
Possibly not viable, but I have to be awake then and the hours get long when I'm sitting in a dark room with nothing to read or think about except my nursing daughter (who is wonderful, but my brain won't concentrate on just her for an entire hour).
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/tired.gif) sleepy
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January 10th, 2009
10:02 pm - Feeling Better!
Mostly, anyway. Enough better to feel like frivoling on the computer at 10pm, instead of dragging myself to bed.
Only now that I come to think of it, there's not much to say about the past, oh, four months. Well, that's not exactly true. Despite being sick, I travelled for Thanksgiving, to two work conferences, and to Toronto to see my brother and The Toronto Consort's performance of the Praetorius Christmas Vespers. I just wish I'd felt better for all of it.
Here's a link to The Toronto Consort if anyone who looks at this page is interested--but I doubt my journal gets much traffic, which is okay.
Hmm... Now it's 10:10. Maybe it's time to drag myself off to bed. I'm so hopeless.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) hopeful
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September 12th, 2008
09:57 pm - Attack...
...of the Plot Bunny.
Really, I've had to coax my plot bunnies out with promises of carrots and cabbages up until now. A day or so ago a Giant Rabid Plot Bunny came careening out of its hole and bit me viciously on the ankle. Thus infected, I am feverishly trying to repress a story that is growing like a pruned hydra.
Dratted bunny. Dratted story. Doesn't it know I have a freakin' exchange gift to write? I don't have time for this story at the moment, and it is most inconveniently driving my nice little exchange story ideas out of my head, or, even worse, sucking up the exchange story ideas into itself. Which would be great if only the two stories were even slightly compatible--but they're not.
*contemplates large rodent traps and rabbit stew*
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) irritated
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September 9th, 2008
07:55 am - woohoo!
Yesterday the house got wired for high speed internet. This makes me a happy girl.
I've noticed, though, that it doesn't make the fanfic stories I follow get updated any faster. Sigh. =)
It's a busy time at work right now, but things are getting done. I do like feeling productive.
Current Mood: accomplished
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August 18th, 2008
02:15 pm - Messing around...
My avatar picture.
I sort of borrowed their pose from an oil painting, the name of which I can't think of right now. But I only borrowed part of it.
Current Mood: working
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01:29 pm - Rusty
So I dragged out a sketch pad and some pencils over the weekend to try my hand at fan art. Yup. I'm rusty. I can't make clothes look like clothes, and shading is not very accurate. And my proportions are off.
Not that I ever drew much, though I took a number of art classes. And I never took a figure drawing class, which I think would be useful (and fun).
Anyway, I have created myself an hgss avatar (as seen above).
Yay me. (eye roll)
Current Mood: creative
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August 15th, 2008
07:23 pm - Done!
Done done done done done.
I'm gonna go watch a movie. I think. Dark Knight. And then I'll probably have nightmares.
Current Mood: happy
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04:46 pm - That's It!!!
I've gotta get me some Snape icons!
Only I've never really thought of Alan Rickman as Snape. He just doesn't look right (although his voice...).
Perhaps I should bust out the ol' pencil and paper this weekend and see if I can draw him. I've been meaning to try, anyway.
Oh, and I'm in the office today until I get my workplans for next summer done. SIGH. And it's Friday.
Current Mood: productive
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July 29th, 2008
07:11 pm
Hooray! I've been able to start writing again. I don't know if it was lack of time or excess of stress or just general blankness of the brain, but I haven't been able to write for what seems like weeks. And this weekend, I was able to start writing again. It's such a relief.
I won't be writing tonight, though, instead I'll be attempting to help P pack stuff up at his old apartment. Sigh.
I went and entered the HGSS exchange. We will see what comes of it. I've been reading through the prompts and they are so varied. And of course some I see and think 'Oh, I could write something about that,' and others I see and nothing comes to mind at all. So it may be a Big Challenge, depending on what prompt I draw. I wasn't very specific about what I would/ would not write about. I wonder now if that is going to get me into trouble. But uncertainty is the spice of life. I hope.
Oh, and I need to decide upon a race, half-marathon or shorter, to train for sometime in the late fall. Hmm....
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/energetic.gif) energetic
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July 27th, 2008
12:17 pm - Snape spotting
Severus Snape lives in Laramie, WY. He does! I swear it. He works at the university there, though under an assumed name, of course. I've seen him several times and there is no mistaking the height, the hair, the coloring, or the nose. I think, however, that his personality must have softened somewhat (it is secluded here--no one to bother him), because I've seen him smile several times.
Do you think I should ask him for an autograph?
Oh, and I also happen to know he is happily married. Sorry, everyone. Perhaps that is why he smiles, though.
Current Mood: content
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July 13th, 2008
11:50 am - Where did it go?
Hello? Life? Where are you?
So I had been eagerly awaiting the day of my marriage for several reasons.
1) I love my (now) husband, and was eager to marry him.
2) I was going to see lots of people I like.
3) I really, really was ready for all the decision-making, head-pounding, life-sucking work related to the wedding to be done.
So now, two weeks later, I discover that it is not over. The illusion is broken. There are gifts to be dealt with, thank-yous to be written, and most of P's stuff to be moved into my house. It's the moving that is most daunting; think ten years of bachelor accumulation to be sorted, then tossed or packed. Ten YEARS, people. And P is a saver, not a thrower (I'm a thrower, though currently you wouldn't be able to tell by the state of my kitchen table).
Oh, plus we both work full time. And P has a daughter that is with us most evenings and very often on the weekends. Have you tried to a) clean, b) sit still, c) think straight with a very smart, very verbal 2 1/2-year-old loose in the house? She's great, but she is curious and active and those two things in combination make for a girl you need to keep an eye on. Or about 3 of our 4 total eyes.
So the amount of writing I've done? About half an hour. How much of that did I delete? Four fifths of it.
Sigh. Anyway, I apologize for the lack of posting/updating/anything interesting. Hopefully after this week I'll have a bit more time. Or maybe during this week, since I've got to go back up to Cody, and will only have to deal with Weed & Pest stuff, and not Life In General. Maybe.
Current Mood: rushed
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July 10th, 2008
10:34 am - Welcome!
Welcome to myself, I guess.
If I succeed in figuring out how to use livejournal, I will occasionally ponder my life and post stories--assuming I ever have time to write again--here.
Current Mood: calm
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